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Yeah it is an old line, my first introduction and prominent memory of it is the Marx Bro's.
And I agreed they need to take their best tech and have him or her, have to be pc here, and have them address the forum first and take calls or whatever second. It would make life, especially for the casual user, much easier and could probably save the company money in the long run.
The advanatage is allot of posted questions are ones asked by many users. Posting the answer once rather than a hundered seperate times is a cost saver. It seems Everex has the exact opposite format for their User Forum.
In fact it seems like the tech's almost hide away from ever using the forum. To be honest the only reason I can see doing this is either you have no tech's or the tech's are so inept that your company fears posting their responces. It is possible they out source Tech support to a company that has no idea what they are supporting.
They may be reading from a script asking questions and using a wizard for standard answers. It is a shame but a company offering such deep pricing cuts can rarely afford say 10 higher end techs that can really address the issues. Larger companies such as Dell or HP don't have this issue.
This is where forums such as this one flourishn, and thank god for them. Look at the thread length of just this thread. It serves as proof where users can support other users. I throw the Kudos not only to the people who can answer the questions here but to the ones who ask them as well. Without eirther alot of people would probably have expensive door stops, especially the guest who cruise in the background just reading for an answer.
nietsni3
Couple of questions to clairfy what you have done.
1. Are you undervolting?
2. Did you use a piece of metal between the heatpipe and the gpu heatsink as you described in post #944. If yes did you use thermal grease on both sides of the piece of metal?
3. Are you still using the thin shim on the cpu heatsink or did you eliminate it and are just going cpu heatsink to core with thermal grease?
4. When soldering & looking at your diagram in post # 944 it appears you are just filling the voids between the piece of metal and the gpu heatsink and the voids between the heatpipe and piece of metal, is this correct?
5. What type of instrument are you using to solder, just a regular soldering gun??
6. I'm assuming you set everything in place first and tighten it down ie: the cpu heatsink, and the last step is the soldering?
Thanks
Andy
lol, i knew someone would say this lol. in real life it doesnt look that bad as the close-up pics make it out to be. like those anorexic hollywood actresses say, the camera adds 10lbs, you know lolGee...I wont try messed up solder with my laptop no way, I think I get a better thicker Thermal Pad slap on it.
Phatbx133
for this particular mod, you dont need a small soldering tip. in fact, in order to melt a large volume of solder like that (yes, that piece of solder i put on the heatsink was quite a lot compared to what is typically used), a bigger tip is more effective because it can pump more heat into the solder than the smaller one. the smaller tips are just for precision soldering on small electronic components. so you dad's warted solder gun should be doing just fine.give me a link to a cheap, effective solder gun. my dad has this one that has the equivalent of a metal wart on the end of it...that realllly makes me scared of soldering.
I thought of that option too, but then i did not go for it because solder conducts heat better and, most importantly, is a lot easier to clean up than epoxyA much easier solution would be Silver Conductive Epoxy I've used it in many applications without a problem.
Also, a word of advice to those people who think taking the cover off will be better for your GPU: NO, it will harm your GPU because if you take that cover off, there will be no airflow over the GPU because the chassis is no longer air tight. I have already explained the reason in here:
http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1031314413&postcount=951
so, watch out
I don't but I saw them when they were out....if that helps rofl...
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hmm...lets open back up to the hacking of our video cards, eh? Anyone found a way to turn these conspiracy 7600 cards into what they were supposed to be ?
I sent an email to their support and linked this thread for their information. There is a lot of info here that they probably have no clue about. I also asked if they would consider assigning some support staff to answer questions in the XT5000T forum specifically. We will see if it did any good.
could you try to look in your internet browser's cache and see if the pics are still in there. i believe they areI don't but I saw them when they were out....if that helps rofl...
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hmm...lets open back up to the hacking of our video cards, eh? Anyone found a way to turn these conspiracy 7600 cards into what they were supposed to be ?
could you try to look in your internet browser's cache and see if the pics are still in there. i believe they are
i am pretty sure they have been cut with a laser now
ok, let me put up a noob-disclaimer here....so flame on if you really wish to....
why does cutting it with a laser matter? isnt it just cut in half, and in need of a conducting bridge?
i'm pretty sure it was cut inside the die, so unless you have some kind of high power microscope and know what your looking for... .
oversimplified yes, but true
What can we do thats safe to speed up this system, I bought it because I am a low budget 20yr old college student who loves games, etc, but i want to speed this baby up without fear of complete destruction of my system any advice would be completely appreciated.
THANKS.
I am into networking security I wish I knew more about laptop configs, I am more of a Desktop Guy this is my first real laptop!
Im loving the laptop. Its great for gaming and for watching media.
Well, great except for one thing. As good as the speakers are (and they are very good for a laptop), the damned speakers keep vibrating for some reason while playing music or a video or any multimedia. It is extremely annoying. I have to place myh ands on the speakers to absrob the vibrations to avoid irritating buzzing.
Anyone else have this problem? How do I deal with it? Reducing to volume to 60% doesn't help either, and I am NOT lowering it further, 60% is too low as it is.
K thanks, I was checking back on my performance scores and my laptop came up with these scores it struck me as weird because my Graphics for desktop performance came out to be way higher than what other people posted.
Processor -4.6
Memory -4.2
Graphics- 5.9
G. Graphics- 4.6
Primary Hard disk- 4.5
Also if i installed a kingston 1gb of ram to go with the previous stick, as well as a 80gb 7200rpm hd as my secondary if I were to transfer vista over to the 80gb im thinking performance would increase then use the other as data storage or replace it all together.
Screen is very high definition like resolution can be unlocked using riva tuner 1600x1024 is the highest I got
Dunno if this will help, but try reducing the bass or adjusting the subwoofer crossover/LFE cutoff. It sounds like too much bass is being sent to the satellites, causing them to vibrate. Not many programs give you the option of a 2.1 speaker setup, so sometimes you need to improvise.
The only problem I have with the speakers is that they seem to shut off after a period of inactivity or on start up. I need to manual turn the volume dial all the way down and back up again for the speakers to kick in. Weird, huh?